The chart below shows the number of cancer incidence cases reported per 100,000 population in each state in the US. The data is from the CDC, NCI and NAACCR and was last updated on May 30, 2012. It shows that in 2009 Maine had the highest cancer rate and

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in the U.S. have found that sleeping next to someone lowers the stress hormone cortisol, perhaps because it fosters feelings of safety and security, and increases oxytocin, a chemical that produces feelings of

Weight loss has been proven to reduce the risk of cancer in recent research. A study looked at women who changed their diet, women who changed their diet and exercised as well as women who made no changes to their lifestyle. After a period of time levels

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The experiment identified numerous genes that have already been linked to pancreatic cancer in humans, proving that their approach was effective. But in over one hundred tumors from the mice that had developed ‘early’ cancer, they found that Sleeping

In recent years cancer researchers have made great progress in survival for many cancer types, including bowel, breast, testicular, and prostate cancer, as well as children’s cancers. But other types of cancer, such as pancreatic, esophageal and lung ca

A new prostate cancer treatment might offer more effective treatment for patients and have fewer side-effects, according to a new report. The study was the first to use a new treatment called as HIFU (high-intensity focused ultrasound) to treat areas of

Can vitamin D help prevent cancer and diseases like type 1 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some autoimmune and chronic diseases? UCSD School of Medicine created this informative video on vitamin D deficiency. Watch these esteemed experts as they tal

Survival rates for some kinds of cancer, such as breast and colon cancer, have improved greatly over the last 40 years but sadly there has been a real lack of investment in others, a recent study has found. Lung, brain and pancreatic cancers have hardly i